The International Gothic Association Postgraduate Essay Prize

The International Gothic Association is pleased to invite submissions to their biennial Postgraduate Student Essay Prize.

The essay competition is open to postgraduate students or postdoctoral scholars who are currently in good standing as IGA members. A postgraduate may be a current or recent Master’s student (within two years of graduation) or a PhD candidate; a postdoctoral scholar is defined as someone who holds a PhD but does not hold a permanent academic post.

Entries must offer an original contribution to the field of Gothic
Studies and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

The winning essay will be published in Gothic Studies (with
revisions guided by the editors, as appropriate), the official journal of the
International Gothic Association published by Edinburgh University Press.
Its author will receive £50 from the International Gothic Association, and a
year’s paid subscription to Gothic Studies. The publication issue
for the winning article will be 22/3 (November 2020).

Essays should be between 5000 and 7000 words in length, inclusive of footnotes and bibliography, and should adhere to the Gothic Studies style guide. The guide is available for download here: https://www.euppublishing.com/page/gothic/submissions Essays should be formatted as a .doc or a .docx.

A copy of your
essay (as a .doc or .docx). This should be anonymised for blind review.

An accompanying
email that lists the following details: your name; the title of your essay; a
current email and postal address; your present and past affiliations; the name
of the qualification for which you are studying (if you are postgraduate), or
the title of your submitted PhD (if you are postdoctoral); the expected date of
completion (for postgraduates), or the date of your submission (for
postdoctoral entrants); a statement confirming the essay is your own original
work, completed in the course of your study for the listed qualification.

Essays
not submitted with all of these details will not be considered.

The closing date for receipt of entries is 1 October 2019. Late entries will not be considered. Entries will be judged by a panel of the IGA, consisting of Prof Mariaconcetta Costantini, Dr Carol Margaret Davison and Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn. The judges are not able to provide individual feedback on the essays. Please direct any queries to timothy.jones@stir.ac.uk